“Here’s the truth about steroids: They work,” he said in a story reported by The Missoulian.

“I’ve had somebody say that, you know, steroids should be banned because they’re not healthy for you,” he told the students Tuesday. “Let’s go find out. What do the doctors actually think about anabolic steroids and the use by athletes? Don’t have a preconceived notion that this is right or this is wrong.”

Musburger said negative stories about steroids are mainly the fault of “journalism youngsters out there covering sports (who) got too deeply involved in something they didn’t know too much about.”

I think Musburger is absolutely correct. The use of steroids has been sensationalize to the point that the mere mention of the drug has negative overtones.

It is has been used especially in Baseball as a red herring about all that is wrong with the sport.

The truth if they aren’t using steroids, they are using something else that in undectable.

When the leagues catch up to that drug, they will start using something else.

If there is anything that players can use to find an edge, they will. Especially when we are talking about millions of dollars on the line.

If someone told me I could take a drug and it could guarantee me 10+ million dollars, but might cut a few years off my life I would be refilling my bottle right now.

Steroids is just a convenient excuse to use when other things go wrong in sports, but in reality there are much bigger issues. Believe that.